Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881-March 11, 1955) was a Scottish bilogist and pharmacologist . His best known discoveries are the discovery of the Iyosozyme in 1923 and penicillin, antibiotic substance, which shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine in 1945 with Horward Florey and Ernst Chain.
Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfielda farm near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland. Was the third of four children of Hugh Fleming (1816-1888) from his second marriage with Grace Stirling Morton(1848 to 1928). Hugh Fleming had four children survivors of his first marriage. He was 59 years old at the time of his second marriage and died when Alexander was seven years olf. Fleming went to Loundoun Moor School and Darvel School. and earned a two- year scholarsihip to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution. After working in shipping office for four year, the twenty year-od Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming.His elder brother, Tom was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St. Mary´s Hospital, Paddington, London. He qualified for the school with distinction in 1906 and had the option of becominga surgeon. The captain of his rifle club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St. Mary´s, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and inmmunology.On 23 December 1915, Fleming married a trained nurse, Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala, County Mayo, Ireland. Fleming seved throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western From in France. In 1918 he returned to St. Mary´s Hospital, wich was a teaching hospital. He was elected Professor of Bacteriology in 1928.
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MIGUEL SERVET (by Pablo Ruiz Estrada)miguel servet (1511-53)Doctor and Spanish Theologan. He was born in Villanueva de Sigena and died in Ginebra. He studied in Toulousse and Paris. After 1541 he practised in Vienne (France) as a doctor of the archbishop. His most important work was the discovery of the blood circulation. This work burned in the bonfire just as his author Miguel Servet.
SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL (by Marina Asin)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal was born in Petilla de Aragon (Navarra) on 1st May 1852 and died in Madrid on17th October 1934. Santiago's parents were called Justo Ramon and Antonia Cajal. He had two sisters Pabla and Jorja.
He was a Spanish doctor, he was a famous histologist, pathologist and neuroscientist and discovered the microscopic structure of the brain.
Santiago had many awards for his contributions to the neuron doctrine, for example he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1906.
Besides, he was a fantastic artist and his passions were painting and photography.
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(By Adrián Peña)ALEXANDER FLEMING
Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881-March 11, 1955) was a Scottish bilogist and pharmacologist . His best known discoveries are the discovery of the Iyosozyme in 1923 and penicillin, antibiotic substance, which shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine in 1945 with Horward Florey and Ernst Chain.
Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfielda farm near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland. Was the third of four children of Hugh Fleming (1816-1888) from his second marriage with Grace Stirling Morton(1848 to 1928). Hugh Fleming had four children survivors of his first marriage. He was 59 years old at the time of his second marriage and died when Alexander was seven years olf.
Fleming went to Loundoun Moor School and Darvel School. and earned a two- year scholarsihip to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution. After working in shipping office for four year, the twenty year-od Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming.His elder brother, Tom was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St. Mary´s Hospital, Paddington, London. He qualified for the school with distinction in 1906 and had the option of becominga surgeon.
The captain of his rifle club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St. Mary´s, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and inmmunology.On 23 December 1915, Fleming married a trained nurse, Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.
Fleming seved throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western From in France. In 1918 he returned to St. Mary´s Hospital, wich was a teaching hospital. He was elected Professor of Bacteriology in 1928.
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SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL (by Marina Asin)
Santiago's parents were called Justo Ramon and Antonia Cajal. He had two sisters Pabla and Jorja.
He was a Spanish doctor, he was a famous histologist, pathologist and neuroscientist and discovered the microscopic structure of the brain.
Santiago had many awards for his contributions to the neuron doctrine, for example he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1906.
Besides, he was a fantastic artist and his passions were painting and photography.